Fred Zepeda, president of the West Pasadena Residents Association, said "unmonitored" open parkland is not high on adjacent neighbors' list, but that the area could live with any of the top four contenders.

Councilman Steve Madison, whose district includes the Desiderio site, said he had heard the Department of Defense has been talking to developers "to just develop it in a whole other direction, which obviously gives me some concern."